Abstract
The relative impact on stratospheric temperature of the volcanic eruptions of Agung, El Chichon, and Pinatubo is estimated using 9-season averages of temperature to minimize the QBO influence. The low-stratospheric warming following the 3 eruptions tends to be greatest in the tropics and decrease poleward, but on average there is a twofold greater warming in the Southern Hemisphere than in the Northern Hemisphere. The warming following the 3 eruptions is essentially the same in the Northern Hemisphere, but in the Southern Hemisphere the warming is half again as great following Pinatubo, mostly due to a much greater warming in south temperate and south polar zones. The tropical stratospheric warming following El Chichon exceeds that following Agung to a height of 30 km, the difference in warming increasing with height. The warming following Pinatubo slightly exceeds that following El Chichon to a height of 24 km, but at greater heights the warming following Pinatubo is indicated to be much less, an unexpected finding in view of satellite evidence that Pinatubo aerosols rose to nearly the 40 km level.
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Angell, J.K. (1996). Stratospheric Temperatures after Volcanic Eruptions. In: Fiocco, G., Fuà, D., Visconti, G. (eds) The Mount Pinatubo Eruption. NATO ASI Series, vol 42. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61173-5_9
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